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Pingdom is a versatile tool that users rely on to monitor the uptime of their websites and ensure they are up and operational. With …
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What is SolarWinds Pingdom?
SolarWinds Pingdom is a website uptime monitoring and alert tool, with additional reporting and Real User Monitoring capabilities. Pingdom is part of SolarWinds’s DevOps package, enabling full-stack monitoring as a service.
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- $14.95 per month
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What is SolarWinds Pingdom?
SolarWinds® Pingdom® is a SaaS-based web app performance monitoring solution. It provides web app performance and user experience monitoring consisting of four major capabilities:
- Uptime monitoring for webpages and other critical components like APIs, CDNs, DNS, networks, email, and more
- Page speed performance monitoring and page rankings
- Synthetic transaction monitoring from the simplest to the most complex transactions
- Real user monitoring (RUM), enabling a deeper and wider understanding of the user’s digital experience, and web application availability and performance
SolarWinds Pingdom Features
- Supported: Uptime Monitoring
- Supported: Synthetic Transaction Checks
- Supported: Page Speed Tests
- Supported: Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Supported: No-Code Transaction Recorder
- Supported: Dashboards & Reporting
- Supported: Over 100 Probes Worldwide
- Supported: Developer-Friendly API
- Supported: Alerts & Notifications
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SolarWinds Pingdom Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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SolarWinds Pingdom is a website uptime monitoring and alert tool, with additional reporting and Real User Monitoring capabilities. Pingdom is part of SolarWinds’s DevOps package, enabling full-stack monitoring as a service.
SolarWinds Pingdom starts at $14.95.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of SolarWinds Pingdom are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Pingdom is a versatile tool that users rely on to monitor the uptime of their websites and ensure they are up and operational. With Pingdom's notifications via Mobile, Email, and Slack Integration, users can quickly resolve any downtime issues and avoid potential revenue loss. The tool is widely used by multiple departments within organizations for front-line monitoring of core public-facing services, allowing them to be proactive and react as soon as they receive a notification of downtime, preventing further issues. Additionally, Pingdom is used for uptime monitoring and verification of responses from specific endpoints, which assists in diagnosing issues. Its ability to support different monitoring types makes it a preferred choice for many users.
Furthermore, Pingdom serves as an uptime monitor for cloud applications, providing direct notifications and general uptime statistics. Users rely on Pingdom to monitor URL/endpoints and website uptime, ensuring optimal performance. It also helps in managing preventive failures and troubleshooting during scheduled maintenances. Additionally, Pingdom allows for the addition of notification-only users, facilitating collaboration with other teams. As a service provider, Pingdom is a primary tool for monitoring uptime for clients. Users appreciate its simplicity and ease of setup and maintenance. Integration with OpsGenie allows for quick resolution of alerts and efficient management of downtime. Overall, Pingdom is a helpful tool for monitoring and testing websites, analyzing page speed, overall performance, compliance with SLAs, and providing reliable customer service.
Users have made several recommendations based on their experiences with Pingdom. The most common recommendations are as follows:
- Users recommend allowing ICMP traffic and configuring the alerting system properly to avoid excessive alerts in Pingdom.
- They also suggest using Google Chrome Developer Tools to gain a better understanding of visitor experience with different network speeds.
- Additionally, users highly recommend considering the free plan offered by Pingdom for basic uptime checking.
Overall, these recommendations highlight the technical reliability of Pingdom as a monitoring platform and provide suggestions on optimizing website performance and monitoring experience.
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December 09, 2020
Very Helpful Tool for Monitoring and Improving Website Performance
Pingdom is a helpful tool that allows us to monitor websites we develop and run a variety of tests, identify trends, to ensure optimal performance. We especially love the page speed analysis tool which is helpful to benchmark our clients' websites' with performance grades and identity ways to improve page speed and overall performance.
- Page speed monitoring and performance grading
- Identifying performance issues and bottlenecks
- Providing insights into how to improve website performance
- Website uptime monitoring and alerts
- The feature set is not as rich as it could be
- While a great tool, its a bit pricey for what you get
- Reports should be more customizable
- Pingdom has helped us improve our website page speed optimization practices immensely.
- Pingdom has allowed us to benchmark the speed of our websites and provide clients with reports.
- Pingdom has given us the insights needed to make performance-based tweaks to improve our websites.
Pingdom provides better isights than Google PageSpeed Insights and is more affordable for the unlimited websites than GTmetrix. Featurw wise, Pingdom is very similar to GTmetrix, but I personally believe that the interface and user experience is significantly better than GTmetrix. Google provides some helpful insights for free, but not near the level of insights that Pingdom does.
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The feature set was definitely the most important factor in making our decision. We wanted a tool that providing uptime monitoring, as well as could provide us with insights into page speed and website performance, all within one convenient platform. Price was a secondary factor, but features and usability were definitely the most critical factors in our selection of Pingdom.
December 08, 2020
Pingdom used during a maintenance activity
I've deployed SolarWinds Pingdom in a few customer deployments to help facilitate site checking of the network post migration. This tool helps to check interconnectivity between data centers by checking the recovery and response of remote applications during a migration exercise. Demonstrating to the customer the ability of the tool to check their end hosts/applications and the length of outage builds up their confidence during a maintenance activity.
- End host response.
- End site recovery times.
- API recovery.
- Based on limited use I haven't seen any shortcomings as of yet.
- Quick response to outages.
I have used a host of other ping applications that were used to generate responses back from end hosts but that just shows the responsiveness of the host and not the applications. Seeing the response back from an application is crucial especially when a system is taken down and is sensitive to any network outage.
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Quick deployment and movement between sites helps us resolve numerous issues